Jodi Picoult is an author whose stories could have the secondary title: Ripped From Today’s Headlines. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes she genuinely hits it out of the ballpark, such […]
Author Jodi Picoult is a resident of Hanover, NH. Author Stephen King is a resident of Bangor, ME. The two are friends and have appeared together in by-lines and at a few […]
We’ve always heard that question. You know the one – if two of your children were drowning and you could only save one, which one would you choose? Most parents dance around […]
On occasion, a book can leave me with the feeling of not knowing where to begin when discussing it. Sometimes it’s because I can’t verbalize my feelings for it adequately. More rarely, […]
I was introduced to Jodi Picoult after reading Nineteen Minutes, which was assigned as summer reading to the high school one summer. The good and bad side to reading so many books […]
There are some classic stories that one figures can never be quite adapted to our modern world. The story of the Salem Witch Trials, as told in Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, […]
We discovered the books of author Jodi Picoult in my house when one of them appeared on the school reading list for the summer. The teens and I were immediately hooked, and […]
They love to tell youStay inside the linesBut something’s betterOn the other side– John Mayer, No Such Thing For the eleventh grade summer reading this year, the kids were assigned the book […]
As the mother of a child on the autism spectrum, I knew House Rules would be a hard book for me and I was right. Along with being a compelling story and […]
It’s difficult enough being a parent with all of the usual worries we have about our kids. It seems that you can’t turn on the television without seeing something about picking up […]
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